Tracey Emin interview: Art, artist and media coverage Propelled by explicitly
autobiographical works such as Everyone I ever slept with (1995) and My bed (1998), Brit - celebrity «bad girl»...
Propelled by explicitly
autobiographical works such as Everyone I ever slept with (1995) and My bed (1998), Brit - celebrity «bad girl» Tracey Emin has crossed the boundary from artist to a pop - culture phenomenon.
Not exact matches
In an interview that coincided with the opening, Bourgeois explained that the imagery in her
work, which deals with themes
such as jealousy, violence, sexual desire, betrayal, fear, anxiety and loneliness, was wholly
autobiographical and a form of catharsis.
Past
works,
such as Mask (2011), Cao (2014), and Surveillance Camera with Plinth (2015), each infused with
autobiographical elements, transmit ideas of isolation, displacement, governmental control, and environmental disuse.
Re-presenting
such early methods, James Welling's
works move towards the reanimation of historical approaches; presenting both chemigram surfaces, as well as pristinely isolated
autobiographical scenes documented with large format cameras.
Personal history is primary in
works such as Radcliffe Bailey's Tricky 3 (2011), a multilayered piece that employs collage and explores both African American history and influences on the artist, and Trenton Doyle Hancock's 548 First Street N.E. (2012), an
autobiographical portfolio based on the artist's childhood memories of his grandmother's house.
Exploiting the creative potential of free association and past experience, he created deeply personal, often
autobiographical, images by drawing liberally from
such disparate fields as urban street culture, music, poetry, Christian iconography, African and Aztec cultural histories and a broad range of art historical sources, a practice that is particularly evident in this
work.
Her
work addresses
autobiographical material as well as the legacy of artistic figures of the 20th century
such as dancer Josephine Baker, musician Sun Ra, writers Guillaume Dustan and Jean Genet.
From this point on, Johns's
work increasingly includes
autobiographical references
such as the artist's shadow, first seen in his Seasons series (Summer and Fall, 1987).
This sensibility produced
works such as Self - Portrait (2001), inspired by Louise Bourgeois's towers at Tate Modern (2000) and Tatlin's model for the Monument to the Third International (1919 - 20), in a metaphor of her up - and - down life with an
autobiographical helter - skelter.
Apart from
such extremes, most of Stanczak's
works seem to accommodate both Judd's formalist reading and the more personal,
autobiographical interpretation suggested by the current show.